The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 58: I want peace, I hope for peace, I open the city gates to welcome peace! (Please collect, read, and vote)
"Of course I know Daozhou City is easy to capture! But I want to capture it beautifully, to make everyone in the world come together, to make everyone want peace, to hope for peace, and to open the city gates to welcome peace! Can you do it? Tell me what you think!"

Luo Yaoguo, this angel master, is quite good at making things difficult for others. He posed a big problem to his subordinates as soon as he opened his mouth.

Fortunately, he now has a large group of capable people under him. If they work together carefully, they should be able to come up with an answer.

Archangel Luo's team is now relatively decent. Among them, Su Sanniang is his fiancée and female commander. Not only is she very skilled in martial arts and command, but she is also extremely loyal and will never betray him.

Therefore, the two thousand or so big-footed female soldiers from Guangxi in the front army of the female camp, plus the seven or eight hundred male soldiers mobilized by Luo Yaoguo in Etang Town, and the new brothers who were still usable selected from the captured Qing monsters, were all under her management!

He Damei is Su Sanniang's deputy, Li Xiucheng's aunt, and Li Shixian's biological mother. Luo Yaoguo has already applied to Feng Yunshan to transfer both of them to his command. Those new brothers in the male camp can form a new army in the future, and the general commander and army commander will be given to them.

Jiao Hong can be a spy chief - Hongmen brothers are everywhere! Although the composition of Hongmen brothers is complex, there are many scums who defected to the court. However, as long as a group of God Worshipping Society believers are developed among the Hongmen brothers and the Hongmen network is used, there will be no government office in the southern provinces that they cannot enter!

Yu Mieqing is more suitable to be a "military expert". First of all, this old man has been fighting in the Qing army for thirty years. No one in the Taiping Army knows the Qing soldiers better than him. Only by knowing what the Qing army is like can we match the most appropriate plan to annihilate the enemy! Moreover, he has been in the army for many years, and he must be good at setting up formations, setting up camps, organizing logistics, and observing terrain.

Secondly, he had more than 30 disciples who joined the Taiping Army, and they were all good candidates for being instructors.

Wang Yan, Zhu Ba, Zhang Bao and other "Twelve Disciples" are Luo Yaoguo's trusted confidants. For now, they can be allowed to preside over the "land distribution" pilot project in Etang Town and its surrounding areas.

It is called a "pilot project", but in fact it is just a "starting point". The "Twelve Apostles" are the seeds, and Etang is a "fertile field". After the transformation of the area around Etang Town, a large number of new "activists" will be harvested - given the sharp contradiction between people and land and the huge gap between the rich and the poor in the Qing Dynasty, as well as the fact that there are poor people everywhere who really can't survive, wherever the Taiping Army goes, there will be people willing to stand up and "oppose" it.

If we can discover them through "dividing the land", open a training class, and train them well, we can have a large number of new disciples sent to other places to divide the land. Then the number will snowball and get bigger and bigger!

Perhaps within a few months, the entire southern Hunan will be swept up by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's "land distribution", and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's grassroots will be spread throughout the villages of Yongzhou, Guiyangzhou and Chenzhou. Two to three million poor people will be firmly controlled by the Hunan branch of the God Worshipping Society led by Feng Yunshan.

At that time, even if you asked Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang to come together to encircle and suppress us, it would probably be a tough battle!
Therefore, these twelve disciples are particularly important in Luo Yaoguo's camp.

As for Zeng Tianyang and Chen Chengrong, strictly speaking, they are not part of Luo Yaoguo's team. One is from the Southern King's side, and the other is from the Eastern King's side. Together with "Brother Fa" Hong Renfa, who seems to be having fun somewhere, they are actually "observers", representing the people behind them to observe whether this angel Luo Yaoguo has anything in his belly.

However, the three of them obviously had different attitudes towards Luo Yaoguo. Zeng Tianyang himself was a big shot. His family was one of the first batch of old brothers from Guangxi who joined the God Worshipping Society. They were powerful and had already staked everything they had. The sunk cost was too high, and they sincerely hoped that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would be fine.

If Luo Yaoguo's approach is correct enough, he will also side with Luo Yaoguo!

Hong Renfa was easier to deal with, as he had the same interests and hobbies as Hong Xiuquan.
Chen Chengrong was the most respectful to Luo Yaoguo among the three, and he was very supportive of the idea of ​​dividing the land and the floating wealth! If he had not read history beforehand, Luo Yaoguo would have almost thought he was a good person.

When he heard the question raised by Luo Yaoguo, he was the first to answer.

"Your Majesty, I have heard from storytellers that when Li Zicheng, the King of Rebellion, rebelled, the people opened the city to welcome him, and some people even made a folk song to spread around, singing something like 'Open the gates early to welcome Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng will not pay taxes when he comes'. There is also a similar song called 'Welcome Peace' in the 'Anti Sutra' passed down by Brother Tian. Why don't we send someone to sneak into Daozhou and distribute this song to encourage the poor people to rebel!"

Luo Yaoguo nodded. This Chen Chengrong was also a talent. No wonder he could climb to a high position in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!
He immediately laughed and said, "Guard Chen has a good idea!"

"Your Highness," Jiao Hong was immediately inspired when he heard what Chen Chengrong said, "There are now 20,000 to 30,000 unemployed miners, boatmen, and dock workers gathered in Daozhou City. They are all brothers of the Tiandihui! If Your Highness is willing to give them a way out, I am willing to sneak into Daozhou and mobilize them to revolt for Your Highness!"

This is an armed uprising of workers!

It sounds advanced!
"Okay!" Luo Yaoguo wanted Jiao Hong's advice, so he promised immediately: "Brother Jiao, if the Tiandihui members inside and outside Daozhou City can really be mobilized, then the first credit for the Daozhou War will belong to Tiandihui!" Yu Mieqing saw that Jiao Hong was about to make progress, and his old brain started to work, and soon he had an idea: "Your Highness the Angel, I have several, no, more than a dozen godsons, who have joined the Taiping Army with me. If you trust them, you can let them sneak back to Daozhou City and contact my confidants who stayed in the military camp in the city. If Your Highness the Angel is willing to spend some money, they may be able to start a mutiny in Daozhou City, open the city gates, and welcome the Holy Soldiers into the city!"

In order to make progress, Mr. Yu has taken in more than a dozen sons in the past few days. Now he has dedicated them all to go into the city to launch a mutiny - if successful, he will be able to gain a foothold in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. If he fails, they are just his godsons after all!
Luo Yaoguo was quite satisfied and asked with a smile: "Master Yu, Brother Jiao, tell me, how much silver do you want to take Daozhou City for me?"

Yu Mieqing and Jiao Hong had obviously communicated with each other before, and they exchanged glances. Then Yu Mieqing said, "If we have 10,000 taels, we can have a 50% chance of winning."

"Fifty percent of ten thousand taels, what about the other twenty thousand taels?" Luo Yaoguo asked.

"At least 80%!" Jiao Hong said.

"Thirty thousand?"

"One hundred percent!" Yu Mieqing said firmly.

"I'll give you thirty thousand!" Luo Yaoguo said, "I want to take over Daozhou City, but the people you mobilize cannot rob in Daozhou City. After the success, the brothers who follow you will be given land and promoted!"

Upon hearing this, Yu Mieqing and Jiao Hong both knelt before Luo Yaoguo and shouted in unison: "We will not fail in your mission!"

Luo Yaoguo nodded, then turned to Su Sanniang and said, "Sanniang, have you figured out a route to advance?"

"I already have one!" Su Sanniang still knelt respectfully to Luo Yaoguo, "Master Yu has already helped me decide on a strategy to go south from Shuangpai Pass, pass through Yangming Mountain, and then split the troops into two groups to attack Daozhou from both sides!"

"Very good!" Luo Yaoguo said, "All troops will rest for another three days and transfer to the Southern King's troops, and then march south to Daozhou by land and sea!"

"Yes!"

Daozhou was a subordinate prefecture of Yongzhou Prefecture, located south of Yangming Mountain, where Shuangpai Pass and Shuangpai Town were located. It was less than 100 miles away from Shuangpai Pass and about 20 miles away from the southern foot of Yangming Mountain. Once Shuangpai Pass and Shuangpai Town were lost, the Taiping Army rushed out of the Yangming Mountain area along the Xiaoshui River Valley and reached Daozhou City 20 miles south.

The capital of Daozhou was built along the strategic location of the Xiaoshui River! But there was one problem: the Xiaoshui River turned a corner near Daozhou City, and the river, which originally ran north-south, became west-east. Daozhou City was built on the north bank of this section of the Xiaoshui River!

In other words, the danger is in the south, but the enemy is coming from the north!

This is not the worst. What is even worse is that the enemies coming from the north are coming by water. They can drive their warships to the surface of Xiaoshui River south of Daozhou City, completely cutting off the defenders' retreat.

Of course, this is not the worst. What is even worse is that Daozhou City actually has no defenders.

The 2,000 Green Camp soldiers originally stationed in Daozhou had suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Etang, and Admiral Yu Wanqing was suspected to have been beheaded! The Central Army Lieutenant General Wu Shibin was definitely beheaded! The 2,000 Green Camp soldiers on the account plus more than 100 militiamen, the total number of people who fled back to Daozhou City was less than 300. Although Yu Wanqing's troops still had some soldiers left behind, and Daozhou also had a city defense camp, the total number of troops was less than 800.
This made Wang Kuiyi, the governor of Daozhou, extremely anxious!

After running back to Daozhou City from Shuangpai Town, they rushed into their own yamen to find a rope, and then sat in the lobby of the room they had "rented with a loan" and cried, each with a rope in hand.

(End of this chapter)